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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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with the superintendents office,which is also connected by telephone with all stations onthe Loop. There are eleven groups of stations and fourstations, two on each side of the track, in each group. Thetwo inside stations of each group represent the Metropoli-tan and the South Side lines and the two outside stationsrepresent the Lake Street and the Northwestern (not yet inoperation). The stations are of the latest, improved type,are lighted by electricity and are heated by natural gassupplied by the Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company. Sta-tion men are responsible for the amount of gas consumedper month, an allowance to each station based on experi-ence being made. The great advantage to the public offered by the sta-tions, apart from the legitimate transportation purpose, isas a relief valve to the street crossings. This is accom-plished by subways suspended over the street under thestructure. Passengers may go from one elevated line to 768 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 12.
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FIG. 4—ELEVATION OF LOOP POWER STATION December, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 769 any one of the other three without going to the street.Moreover, in times of street congestion, and particularly incase of processions, the subways may be used by non-pas-sengers for crossing the streets, and this use is permittedby the Loop managers, although it is carefully watched record could not, of course, be arrived at. Out of the 70,-000 people 30,000 were loaded at three stations, and thetotal number of people loaded during the day was 140,000,while the total number loaded and unloaded during the daywas approximately 375,000. No one was hurt, and there

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